Tim Burton

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn This book is about a poor girl in Brooklyn, New York growing up to a full grown adult by encountering a lot of difficulties. First, her parents were second generation Americans and they were living under a poverty line. Because of this, she had to work before entering elementary school. Moreover, as her family was originated from Eastern Europe, she faced a fierce discrimination when she entered elementary school at the age of seven. What does the worst, her beloved…

The detective fiction novel, The Hounds of Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle, features the well-known Sherlock Holmes and his trusty partner, John Watson. The two are settled in many stories, books, and television shows but in this instance, they are in a detective novel. The novel, narrated by John Watson, tells a detective journey in which townsman Charles Baskerville is supposed to be killed by a hound that is left by the curse of Hugo Baskerville. Sherlock is called upon by the nephew of Sir…

Where would humanity be without defeat? Would we ever have started fire, built a car, lived in houses, domesticated animals, or made it past day 3 without defeat? As humans, we are driven to try again and do better the next time. You learn from mistakes… is that true… or do you learn by losing. Losing has a big impact on society: an NBA team made a mistake and gave the ball to the opponent or an NBA team lost. Which one would have a greater affect on that team. The mistake or defeat? The man who…

Video Games Addiction Antonius J. Van Rooij, Gert-Jan Meerkerk, Tim M. Schoenmakers, Mark Griffiths and Dike Van De Mheen they authored the article " Video Games addiction and social responsibility " in how gamers get addicted to video games and how the companies should be responsible about the effects which is important to not change the gamers behavior. The article has been received on the 2nd of July 2009 and it has been accepted on the 7th of July the same year. Later on, in October 2010…

Intro Complexity and contrast strike the audience hard when making comparisons between the two musicals Buffy: Once More with Feeling(Joss Whedon) and Tim Burton’s adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(Stephen Sondheim). Buffy: Once More with Feeling is a TV episode in which the people of Sunnydale start singing due to a mysterious force and Buffy’s sister Dawn is kidnapped. Buffy and her friends go out to find her sister and the mysterious Sweet, who is a demon with…

he is the second most nominated individual for Academy Awards. Williams has produced music for almost all of Spielberg’s feature motion pictures, which tend to be scored with more orchestral pieces. Divergently, Danny Elfman has collaborated with Tim Burton for works such as Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland. These films feature orchestra and vocal combinations. Elfman created the theme for the longest running American animated…

inhumane to outsiders, within Aztec culture the ritual was completely justified and logical. This concept of separate realities applies also on a personal level in that past encounters alter the reality a person lives in. In the words of film director Tim Burton, “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality”. Nearly any action could be considered rational due…

Headless horseman Most of us know about the horseman who carries around a jackolantern, and who has no head and searches for one to replace his missing one (Hendricks 1). Well you may not know about that at all and you may be going “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” The Headless horseman has been a legend that has been around for many years and has had many appearances in our modern culture today. This essay will explore the legend of the Headless horseman. To start with, let's…

Jack, an accidental children’s author turned novelist of murder and crime, who heavily researches Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid man with the irrational fear of being murdered. When his script has taken the interest of his long time agent and a mysterious executive, what should be the peak of his career turns out to be a breakdown with a side of paranoia. Forced to face his worst nightmares, among them being his failed marriage, the laundromat and the origin of fear…

Connect with characters in personal lives Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel Atonement and Tim Burton’s 2003 film Big Fish both share common themes throughout their stories. Atonement was later adapted into a movie by the same name in 2007, and Big Fish was based on the 1998 Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, and was later in 2013 adapted into a musical. Both focus around the themes of atonement, doing anything for love, family relationships, and the art of story telling. As the title suggests, the…